Quotes About Precision

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.

Clarity, above all, has been my aim.

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car.

In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

Animation is not easy and requires a lot of work on detailing which need ample of time.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

As nines in our system, we need to make sure that we come off the line and that we have numbers correct on both sides.

An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.

I'm a silent assassin - I can say that.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.

It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.

One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

I think it's important to make the simple things right: the easy saves, the catches, commanding the box. On top of that, if you make a super save, then that's great. It's the main base as a goalkeeper.

I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.